Explanatory Notes        Apparatus Notes (Ⓐ)

Source: Mark Twain: A Biography. By Albert Bigelow Paine. 3 vols. New York: Harper and Brothers. [Volume numbers in citations are to this edition; page numbers are the same in all editions.] ([])

Cue: "Sue, we are"

Source format: "Transcript"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified: 1998-03-12T00:00:00

Revision History: HES 1998-03-12 was 1870.02.25 after, tr by Paine at MoSMTB

Published on MTPO: 2007

Print Publication: v4

MTPDocEd
From Olivia L. and Samuel L. Clemens to Susan L. Crane
26 or 27 February 1870 • Buffalo, N.Y. ( MTB , 1:409, UCCL 00434)
. . . .

Sue, we are two as happy people as you ever saw. Our days seem to be made up of only bright sunlight, with no shadow in them.

. . . .

Livy pines & Ⓐemendation pines every day for you, & I pine & pine every day for you, & when we both of us are pining at once you would think it was a whole pine forest let loose.1explanatory note

. . . .
Textual Commentary
26 or 27 February 1870 • From Olivia L. and Samuel L. Clemens to Susan L. Crane • Buffalo, N.Y. • UCCL 00434
Source text(s):

MTB , 1:409.

Previous Publication:

L4 , 80–81.

Explanatory Notes
1 

These fragments cannot be precisely dated, but may belong to the letter Olivia promised her father on 26 February.

Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ  & ●  and three times; also at 80.24
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